Photo of masking up while walking RI beach

Photo of masking up while walking RI beach

Rachael Jeffers, who works at the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, took the organization's new mask for a #lilrhody test run along Narragansett Bay with her sidekick Kensi (dog in background). These custom masks, which read "Democracy Demands Wisdom and Vision" were created by the Humanities Council for their friends, supporters, and staff. The quote is from the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (championed by the late RI Senator Claiborne Pell) which reads: "An advanced civilization must not limit its efforts to science and technology alone, but must give full value and support to the other great branches of scholarly and cultural activity in order to achieve a better understanding of the past, a better analysis of the present, and a better view of the future.

(4) Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts and the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants."

December 4, 2020

Rachael Jeffers

Barrington Town Beach, Barrington, RI